Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As of Monday, CES is planning to go forward in Las Vegas, Jan. 5-8, 2022. But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. The conference formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show hosted by Consumer Technology Association (CTA) attracted 180,000 attendees as recently as 2019, and maxed out in 2015 with 3,600 e

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Special Events

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s start off the new year with some positivity—here are 25 ways your special events colleagues are positioning 2022 for a healthy, prosperous, and fabulous fiscal year.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What do you do to incentivize attendees to visit a city? Are there exceptional experiences? Is there a goal toward a common good? Are they just there for a good time? What if there were a way to check all the boxes on the same trip? In a recent Smart Meetings webinar, “ The Cure for the Boring Conference: How a Chicago Event Leveraged Local Resources to Engage Attendees and Raise Money for an Important Cause ,” learn how American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Choose Chicago ’s partners

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EHL Insights

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Q&A session with SBP coach, Ian Millar, who tells us about his latest project client, INTEL, and their desire to use the Internet of Things in the hospitality market.

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TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Grab your popcorn! From IMEX highlights to a captivating television show for meeting planners, we’ve rounded up the best of our 2021 videos for you to binge this week. Enjoy. The Adventures of James Caspian. James Caspian is a world traveler. Heather Mason, CEO of Caspian Agency, and Carl Winston, founding director of Payne School of Hospitality of San Diego State University, follow the legendary meeting professional as he travels the world inventing the future of events-based science.

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Travel Pulse

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The shorter time periods could help stranded travelers.

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Business Traveler USA

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In response to “the rapid spread of the omicron variant,” the government of Singapore has temporarily suspended sales for its Vaccinated Travel Lane services. The suspension will apply to bookings made after midnight Dec. 22 for all VTL services scheduled to take place up to and including January 20, 2022 – after this date VTL sales will be capped at 50 percent of the allocated quota.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Reasonable care has become an elevated priority—and so has liability. With the pandemic and public concern fluctuating in the midst of uncertainty, event planners and professionals are left with an enormous responsibility to prepare themselves, their guests and their contracts for whatever comes next. But we’ve anticipated this. This year, we talked tips, tricks and insights with legal professionals on negotiating event contracts and navigating the current legal landscape.

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Travel Daily News

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Conference focused on the theme "How Can International Organizations Play a Leading Role in Global Tourism Recovery and Reshaping Governance".

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Last year, with global lockdowns and a lack of face-to-face communication and interactions, the health and wellness of many took a hit. This year, while some tentatively returned in-person meetings, others continued to work from afar, unsure of what the next Covid-related news article might bring. We’ve learned much about how to remain calm and preserve our well-being despite the craziness going on around us.

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The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

Business Traveler USA

DECEMBER 27, 2021

After a seven-year restoration project, Hotel La Compañía will open its doors in spring of 2022 in Panama City, Panama. Located in Casco Antiguo, the city’s historic district, this property will be the first Central American hotel in The Unbound Collection by Hyatt portfolio. Each of the three wings restores a piece of the historic old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In the meeting professional world there is no “one-size-fits-all” when solving any problem. Nuances, circumstances and ever-changing rules shape how one goes about tackling an issue. Much like the event planner, strategic solutions can wear many hats. Event cancellations, postponements, hybrid engaged dominated conversations over the last 12 months.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Tired of meetings that don’t end on time? Who isn’t? Things were bad enough when we held our meetings in person. Now so many meetings are online, it’s easy to saddle remote workers with back-to-back meetings. When one overruns, you’re late to the next one. Hey presto, your tardiness snowballs! (And, no, you can’t be on two Zooms at once without going through tortuous hacks.

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Business Traveler USA

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Christmas holiday travel period has thus far seen a perfect storm, with the convergence of surging omicron variant cases keeping many airline crews grounded just as travelers return to the air in pandemic-era record numbers. Add to that severe weather in parts of the US, and the result is hundreds of disrupted flight schedules. On Christmas Eve, when the Transportation Security Administration reported a near-record number of more than 1.7 million passengers passing through its checkpoints, a

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